C is a procedural programming language initially developed by Dennis Ritchie in the year 1972 at Bell Laboratories of AT&T Labs. It was mainly developed as a system programming language to write the UNIX operating system.
The main features of the C language include:
- General Purpose and Portable
- Low-level Memory Access
- Fast Speed
- Clean Syntax
Why Should We Learn C?
Many later languages have borrowed syntax/features directly or indirectly from the C language like the syntax of Java, PHP, JavaScript, and many other languages that are mainly based on the C language. C++ is nearly a superset of C language (Only a few programs may compile in C, but not in C++).
So, if a person learns C programming first, it will help them to learn any modern programming language as well. Also, learning C helps to understand a lot of the underlying architecture of the operating system like pointers, working with memory locations, etc.
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